fraps is laggy?
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ok i am haveing the same problem to with fraps.... i am trying to recoed me playing CS source. I set it that it should record at 60 frames per sec but right when i start recprding my fps goes down to 24 when it is normally 70+...thx for all the help... or if u know a better program to record with that would be great ty...
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Fraps uses a lot of power when recording video from games and if your somputer is not up to the task then you will get laggy frame rates. Also setting the frame rate in fraps just tells the program how many FPS to record per second not the FPS of the program you are using. If you want better frames per second in CS when recording with FRAPS then set the FRAPS frame rate lower and it will use less CPU power.
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Rambo20
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my comp is pretty good... and it does this in all games brings fps to 24ish on warcraft all games..thx for help... i only have 512 ram thou mabe a gig would help?
DeathIncarnate
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LOL dont record directly with fraps! Record a demo first: console -> record demoname. Then you won't loose to many FPS. Once you're finished, disconnect or type stop in the console. Then type playdemo demoname in the console and record THAT with fraps. Who cares about framerate when they are not playing 
And fraps will still record the full 60 FPS (if your demo was 60 fps or higher)
And fraps will still record the full 60 FPS (if your demo was 60 fps or higher
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no matter what game i use with FRAPS the video function lags...not too good when you need to be sharp or accurate - playing a racing game the other day (Flatout) and tried to record - impossible to drive and record...
My comp is also quite powerful (plays HL2 on full everything) and yet it still happens...
My comp is also quite powerful (plays HL2 on full everything) and yet it still happens...
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sabre0001 said:
Read my previous post noob :-P
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60 frames per second for a video? you guys are crazy, 30 is more than enough for a video.
of course it lags then... FRAPS records frames realtime... so that means a double load on your card. not only does it need to render te gameframes in the first place, it also has to let fraps save 60 of those frames to your harddrive. 30 is the maximum for videos.
if you want the ultimate best video in 60 fps, you do not record realtime with fraps, but you record a demo and let it write each frame to a single image, you can add them together in video editing software afterwards. (beware that both methods - fraps and demo - require large amounts of free space since it is all uncompressed)
of course it lags then... FRAPS records frames realtime... so that means a double load on your card. not only does it need to render te gameframes in the first place, it also has to let fraps save 60 of those frames to your harddrive. 30 is the maximum for videos.
if you want the ultimate best video in 60 fps, you do not record realtime with fraps, but you record a demo and let it write each frame to a single image, you can add them together in video editing software afterwards. (beware that both methods - fraps and demo - require large amounts of free space since it is all uncompressed)
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Holly shit people are stupid.
The analogy to that question as "why do I have to press more on the gas pedal when I'm towing a trailer?"
God people seriously. Even a f*cking top of the line PC will slow down when you try to run something else.
Please, anyone who asked/asks this question:
Get the hell out of the house, and go grow an intelligence, for the sake of the human race.
The analogy to that question as "why do I have to press more on the gas pedal when I'm towing a trailer?"
God people seriously. Even a f*cking top of the line PC will slow down when you try to run something else.
Please, anyone who asked/asks this question:
Get the hell out of the house, and go grow an intelligence, for the sake of the human race.
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sabre0001 said:
ROFL read my 1st post again noob :-D
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firemachine69 said:Holly shit people are stupid.
The analogy to that question as "why do I have to press more on the gas pedal when I'm towing a trailer?"
God people seriously. Even a f*cking top of the line PC will slow down when you try to run something else.
Please, anyone who asked/asks this question:
Get the hell out of the house, and go grow an intelligence, for the sake of the human race.
Oh sorry A**WHOLE....was just trying to get some feed back, i know it is going to get a frps drop i just thought it wouldnt be that much....but thx to other people on these forums i got some help.... i think u need to "Get the hell out of the house" for being a f*cken a**whole.
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sabre0001 said:
true. but pretty much every game worth recording footage from does have demo capablilities, for benchmarking if nothing else. and this has been true probably since the dawn of 3d gaming. at the very least since quake, if not duke nukem and older games. (never played DN so i dunno...)
common sense really does take an ass-whipping when it comes to cs players, tho. fraps really isnt a demo recorder. it's an avi recorder. it does have its own compressor, and it's around 1/2 the size of a true uncompressed avi.
but still, 1 minute of footage is around 700+ mbs. so even if we disregard the processing power it takes to record an on-the-fly avi, the HD space needed to capture live play would just be ridiculous.
whereas demos usually dont go too much over 50mb, and can be zipped to around 5x (10mb zipped). and you'll get much better results using fraps to capture footage from a demo anyway, and you can capture only the good scenes, instead of wasting space on a round you got your face blown off.
so please...quit kicking the shit out of common sense.
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No need to get angry,leave them befiremachine69 said:Holly shit people are stupid.
The analogy to that question as "why do I have to press more on the gas pedal when I'm towing a trailer?"
God people seriously. Even a f*cking top of the line PC will slow down when you try to run something else.
Please, anyone who asked/asks this question:
Get the hell out of the house, and go grow an intelligence, for the sake of the human race.
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pgaxero
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... some people are very f*cking stupid.
I have also having the same problem...and this is after I re-installed it due to reformat. All my drivers are up to par, but when I try to record it goes down to 10FPS and will not shoot back up, even when I am done recording. Its a problem with fraps.
I have also having the same problem...and this is after I re-installed it due to reformat. All my drivers are up to par, but when I try to record it goes down to 10FPS and will not shoot back up, even when I am done recording. Its a problem with fraps.
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Of course it's going to lag. In CSS, I can go anywhere from 150+ FPS when not recording to 40FPS. It's taxing on the GPU, CPU and HDD at the same time. The HDD is actively writing about 10MB/s when the CPU to directing the transfer.
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pgaxero
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noooooooo....its something wrong with fraps not the f*cking computer. Get that straight....
I use a different account to record and it works fine. I don't know why but on that one account it doesnt work.
PS- BOTH ACCOUNTS ARE ON THE SAME F*CKING COMPUTER AND YET ONLY THE ONE HAS THE FPS PROBLEM. COMPTER PROBLEM? NOPE.:farmer:
I use a different account to record and it works fine. I don't know why but on that one account it doesnt work.
PS- BOTH ACCOUNTS ARE ON THE SAME F*CKING COMPUTER AND YET ONLY THE ONE HAS THE FPS PROBLEM. COMPTER PROBLEM? NOPE.:farmer:
